"We sat there and I knew that this……" — Peter Høeg
"We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable."
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34 Quotes by Peter Høeg
Peter Høeg has 34 quotes on this site.
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
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The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.
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The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced.…
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I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody…
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He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved…
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There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them.…
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I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps.
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When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
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There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest,…
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Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.
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Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.
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I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has…
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
— Mario Batali
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
— Terry Bradshaw
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
— Jessica Alba
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